Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-12
GoTHAMs STRIKE ENDED.
District Assembly No. 40 Sends
Forth the Edict.

NEW YORK, Feb. 11.-A visit TO the
'breweries this morning showed that all
the employees were at work, and 1t was
stated by the men that they had posi-
lively refused to stop work and take
hand in the great strike.
The ordering of the engineers employed
on the steamship and railroad piers TO go
on strike has, so far as the piers of the
river fronts are concerned. proven dead
letter. A visit to the docks this morn
ing failed to find a single instance of the
stationary engineers having gone out.
THE ENGINEERS REFUSE TO STRIKE.
The engineers have refused point blank
to obey the order OF District Assembly
No. 40, Knights of Labor, to strike. AT
the headquarters of the Assembly this
morning the reports OF the delegates who
had been sent out to see what steps the
engineers were taking In the matter OF
obeying the order reported that the mon
refused to quit work. The leaders of the
strike made every effort TO keep the mat
ter secret, but groups OF men around the
various corners adjacent to the head
quarters, and their excited conversation,
plainly told that something had gone
wrong. Reports from the different brew
cries were equally discouraging, and 1t
was generally admitted that the last
effort OF District Assembly No. 40 had
proved lamentable failure. An official
authority stated that the engineers and
brewers had been called on at too late
period, and he frankly admitted that the
strike was failure.
THE DISSATISFACTION SPREADING.
There were other signs OF dissatisfac-
tion with the executive of Assembly 40.
A prominent member Of the Freight
Handlers Union said there were two or
three men holding rank in Assembly No.
40 who wanted to run the whole business
for their own ends. A number OF long,
shoremen stood around the headquarters,
and several openly declared that they
would go TO work unless more financial
aid from their unions was granted them.
The outlook for these men is discourag-
ing, no matter what they do. There was
to-day no unmanageable blockade, all the
piers were open and received. All the
freight offered. and were forwarding 1t.
This was being done largely by the new
men, the most efficient OF whom are those
brought in by the railroad companies
from points within 100 miles OF New York,
and who go home every night and return
TO work in the morning. being carried
free.
NOT VERY GREEN.
Many of them were freight handlers at
local stations, others are country labor
ers and are able and willing workers,
and others are men who have deserted the
strike and sought employment where not
known. AT majority OF the places men
known to have struck elsewhere have
been rejected when they applied for work.
In some few instances these men have
been welcomed back to their old
places, but If the strike should be aban-
doned at once a majority of the strikers
would have great difficulty in finding
work at their old trade. This Is true also
but to less extent, in regard to the long
shoremen who load and discharge ves-
sells.
ONE CAUSE OF DISSATISFACTION.
1t is now an open secret that the long
shoremen's strike on the East river water
front is practically at an end. In an in
tervlew with one of the officers OF Union
No. 2 tonight he unhesitatingly con-
fessed that One-half of their ., 400 men,
bers had declared their intention of
re5uming work tomorrow, provided the
managers OF the companies should allow
them. He alleged as a reason for their
recession that majority of the union
were knights of Labor, and that they dis
criminated against those who were not
members of that order in the distribution
of the fund for the strikers relief, the
''dudes and Italians" as they termed
them, receiving all the aid while the old
members were totally ignored.
DECLARED OFF.
NEW YORK, Feb. IL, III P. M.-The Ex-
ecutive Board OF District Assembly No
40 tonight declared the great strike at an
end.
The sun tomorrow will say: "DIstrict
Assembly No. 40 having put forth all its
powers to extend the big longshore strike
in every direction where extension was
deemed practicable, and, having failed,
declares the strike off, and lays the blame
of the failure on the eccentric engineers.
A thousand men along the shore, so it
was estimated at the Ocean Association
headquarters yesterday, have already
gone back TO work, but not at their old
places"